Getting
started: Upon loading FrontPage Editor,
a template box will appear allowing novices to select templates for use.
A template is a semi-complete page containing a specific format where all you have to do
is "fill in the blank" and you're done. It saves you the hassle of formatting
text and images, but it is very limiting, so we'll go ahead and do all the
formatting ourselves by selecting Normal Page (contains no formatting)
Although technically speaking, a Normal Page is also a template! Example of a template:

Type Body from here toie: .I am using a template which has a left border for
entering links, a spot to include a title, a body part to enter content, a small table for
organizing information, and a hyperlink so people can reach me.here.

Adding
background: Upon loading Normal Page, a
white blank screen should appear in front of you (gray for older version) The first thing
you want to do is select a background. Right Click the mouse anywhere on
the white screen, and select Page Properties. Select Background
on toolbar, and a box appears. If you want just color for background (black, white, yellow
etc,) make sure Background Image is NOT selected, and choose the colors
you want for background. If you want an image for background, (like this page) check Background
Image, click Browse, and select Other Location
or Clip Art (If the image is in the clip art directory), and choose your
image.

Single spacing text:After an amazing amount of mail asking for how to single space text when
pressing "enter", I've decided to put it here. By default, when you press
"enter" before reaching the end of a line in FrontPage editor, you will be
double spaced. To single space it instead, sinply press shift while
pressing "enter".

Adding external
links: External links are links that lead to
somewhere beyond your site, ie: Yahoo. as opposed to an
internal link, ie: Home. To add an external link: 1) Enter the
text that'll lead to the site. ie: "CNN". 2) Highlight the text, in this case,
"CNN" and 3) Click the HyperLink Button on tool bar (or Insert
than HyperLink on menu ).4) Select World Wide Web on
top, http for HyperLink type, and complete the address
under URL. ie http://www.cnn.com. The
highlighted text will become blue.Adding images: There are two ways to insert an image: 1)(If
the image is on your HD): Place the cursor to where you want the image to
be, than click Insert, than Image. Select Other
Location or Clip Art, go to the directory where the image is,
and double click the file name. (Note: When uploading your page along with the images,
make sure all your images are saved in the SAME directory as the html file they are on
before uploading (whether uploading to Geocities or
other servers), or your images may not show once online). 2)(If
the image is on a server): Click Insert,Image,
select Other Location, and select From Location. Type in
the absolute URL of the image location. URL is the address of where a site or image is on
the web. For example:http://www.cnn.com/images/9607/cnn_logo.gif

Ordinary Image

Server Side Image

The above image's stored on my
site. Right click the image, than View Image to see the
URL of this image.

The above image is on Geocities
main site. Right click the image, than View Image to see
the URL of this image.

Now, this may mean you have two ways to insert
an image, but for the most part, you'll be inserting images from your own HD. IMPORTANT: Use of server side images other than from your own server
location is (unless given permission), often times considered immoral, because you are
"stealing" bandwidth from other sites, slowing down their site just to save
yourself HD space. Therefore you should always ask for permission before doing so. One
example of a legitimate use of server side images is the above GeoCities logo-GeoCities
actually wants you to access the above image via its server, perhaps to prevent tampering
of the image.

Saving your page: Select Save As to save. Under Save As Box,
for Page Title, type in the title people will see on title bar. ie: This
page has title Tutorial 1on very top. Two ways to continue: 1)
Select As File to save as a file, (most of the time you'll be saving
pages this way) and find the appropriate directory. 2) Select As
Template if you want to use this page's format for other pages in the future.
(ie: I have not only saved this page As
File, but also As Template, for I have many more tutorials to
write, and I want to use the same format for all these pages. (Same borders, colors etc)).
Upon choosing As Template, fill in the blanks. For Description,
enter meaningful text that'll describe this template. (ie: Left bordered page). Press ok,
and you're done. Next time you want to use this template, it will be in the Template
Box along with all the other templates as you select File, New.